Attorney Profile
Frederick L. Sosinsky
BIOGRAPHY:
IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION, STREET FIGHTING EXPERIENCE
Fred Sosinsky has been a criminal defense attorney, representing individuals and corporations in criminal cases and investigations, since 1987. He has taught and lectured law students and attorneys in trial advocacy and has written articles concerning the practice of criminal law. Fred has also appeared numerous times over the years on Court TV as an analyst of courtroom proceedings.
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Fred was born in the Bronx and raised on Long Island. After graduating cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia with a degree in Criminology in 1983, Fred attended Fordham University School of Law where he graduated in thetop 10% of his class in 1986. During law school,
Fred clerked for the supervising judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York and worked as well at a large NYC law firm. After working for this firm for some time, Fred left to begin the practice of criminal defense work.
For twenty years, Fred’s practice has been devoted to the representation of persons accused of committing federal or state crimes. From 1987-1990, Fred worked as a senior trial attorney with an organization that provides criminal defense services to indigent persons in the City of New York. As a young lawyer, Fred gained invaluable trial experience during these early years of his practice. From 1990 to 1998, Fred was an associate attorney and then a member of the nationally preeminent criminal defense boutique Litman, Asche & Gioiella. While with the Litman firm, Fred, together with his former partners, successfully represented many individuals in highly publicized matters. Oliver Jovanovic's case is one of the many highly publicized matters. In 1998, Fred began his own practice, returning to the Litman firm in 2001 in a counsel relationship.
Fred is admitted to practice before the Courts of the State of New York, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, as well as the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He has also been admitted to appear on a case by case basis in other state and federal district courts.
Fred lives with his wife and two children in Bergen County, New Jersey.
Fred is a long-time member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Fred is also a longstanding member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York where he has served on the Criminal Courts Committee and the Judiciary Subcommittee (responsible for the review of the qualifications and fitness of attorneys for state and city judgeships), and is on the Board of Directors of the New York Criminal Bar Association. In the past, Fred has also served as an active member of a screening committee to choose judicial candidates for elective office.
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